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"Hi! It&amp;#39;s Lea and I&amp;#39;m over 200 days from my bone marrow transplant--it&amp;#39;s amazing how quickly time can go (although at times it has certainly dragged on...). One thing I&amp;#39;ve realized is that time does not &amp;quot;wait&amp;quot; for you (nor cancer) and you can&amp;#39;t hit the &amp;quot;pause&amp;quot; button on life. When I was engaged to my now husband, we came up with a &amp;quot;40 by 40&amp;quot; list. It was a list of goals/dreams that we wanted to accomplish by age 40 either individually--like Billy wanting to heli-ski (which I wanted no part of)--or shared hopes of having two children and traveling to China. For the most part this list has had to be scrapped due to us dealing with cancer, transplant, and the limitations placed on my/our lives for over two and a half years. I can&amp;#39;t leave the U.S. at this point, as I don&amp;#39;t have any immunizations nor can I receive them now, as many are live viruses, which could kill me without much of an immune system!\nSo, I want to make another list (can you tell I like lists?). This time the list would be far broader with less time restrictions placed on it. More like a life list of how I want to live my/our lives. I want our list to include more general ways of living: simply, giving more to others, spending more time with our families, taking longer walks at sunrise/sunset, and being grateful for each day. OK, deep down I still want to go to an Oprah show, swim with dolphins, and head to Peru but for now that is not going to happen. I can&amp;#39;t be in direct sunlight, around large groups of people, put my head under water, or, like I said before, leave the country.\nMy life is getting better each day and I want this list to help me stay focused on what is truly important in my life. I want to hear your life lists, goals, hopes, and dreams too. Do you write them down? Do you cross them off when they&amp;#39;re done? Do you add new items to your list and delete ones that you no longer want? Somehow for me when I write something down it makes it a little bit more real and helps me remember! --Lea"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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